I have just made accidental contact to Amaury van Espen, who works on understanding Participation in Digital Social Innovation. This interest will probably lead to a PhD, but nothing is set in stone yet.

There seemed to be a broad overlap in our understanding of the relations of compartiments involved in these self-organized economic and mapping efforts we are witnessing. Not only did he provide three new links about third spaces and places, as well as placemaking and places in the making, but is an active user of Gephi for network analysis.

just compiled the converter. It compiles fine but I can’t start it.
It looks like I made a beginner mistake (I’m not a java crack at all).

Here’s what I did:

Imported the project in IntelliJ using the Maven project model

Synced the pom.xml to get all dependencies

Changed the paths in the Controller/Main-class to reflect my folder structure

Ran the “deploy” maven task

Tried to start the resulting .*jar using something like this: “C:\target>java -jar ShapeFileReader-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar”

In the end this procedure gives me an error, complaining about the missing manifest in the jar.
To overcome this, I created a new Artifact (in IntelliJ’s Project Structure dialog), checked “Build on make” and specified the Main Class (Controller.Main). Then I built the project and it seemed to work fine but when I try to execute this jar, I get an error about the missing Main Class altough it should be the right one…

Might be some quirks with my PC at work. I’ll try it later when I’m at home again or maybe you have an advice ready?

Thank you so much,
I very interesting in helping community by finding files to shape in order to support gephi with community analysis and interaction with timeline as well as with map
However i’m still locked in shaping files and purpose it to the community (it is about border of subregion)

It runs. But with the files I tested so far (not too many) it only produced a empty output file.
The output is named the same as the input file but with a .csv extension and is stored in the same folder as the input file.

Good luck with the data. If you have trouble, we can try to figure out how to fix it. But as I haven’t used these file formats before, I would surely need some help with it from someone who can tell me a bit about the data.

Edit: @Amaury_Van_Espen I updated the github repository with the information from this post. I would suggest that you open a github issue for problems that may occur. These issues might be and stay the only documentation

I’m still looking (more than 2 month later …) for appropriate files … it seems to be a very hard task.
Even in the regional institution they do not understand.
Would you be kind to have a look with me about such useful files ?
You shoud probably better know where to find this kind of information if it’s available.